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From: Bulent Aliev <atlasyts@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: damage report
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:11:54 -0400
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>

Glad to hear you are back in the air. Hope you have a good time in OSH.
Buly


On Jul 13, 2006, at 3:53 PM, Bill Eslick wrote:

> I am back in the air again, and the idle is very smooth now!
>
> On the oil jet subject, I installed stock jets with NO spring or  
> ball.  I figured more oil would be a good thing for cooling.  NOW  
> that it is done and running, I finally found the reference to why  
> to reduce the jet size when the springs and balls are removed!  My  
> oil pressure is running from about 25 psi at slow idle to 80-90 psi  
> at high rpm (5000), so I am hoping the pump is keeping up.
>
> Nothing blew up in the first 30 minutes, and the temps are OK, so  
> more run-in time is in order prior to OSH.
>
> Those of you who have reported coolant and oil temps in RVs with  
> evaporator cores are right in line with my experience also.   
> Keeping temps below 200F with a warm engine departure and 95+ OAT  
> does require reducing the throttle at a safe altitude and reducing  
> climb rate to gain COOLING SPEED.  Temps are much easier for me to  
> manage once I can indicate 130 - 140 mph.
>
> Now that the engine is running correctly again, I have to start all  
> over again programming my EC2!  That nasty crossover point at 15"   
> MAP is giving me an annoying surge at a high idle (taxi) speed.   
> Hope a close reading of my manual will let me sort that out.
>
> (Confession)  During the rebuild, I think I found that the timing  
> has been set at 25 BTDC instead of 35 BTDC!  This might explain why  
> changing the timing with the EC2 never made any difference?  I also  
> played with the thermal pellet some more, and I think finding it  
> 1/2 open may have been an overstatement.  It may only have been  
> open a small amount.  It is definitely plugged now.
>
> Hope to see someone at OSH.  I'll be in the "auto-conversion"  
> section Monday thru Wednesday.  Leave a card in my window and we'll  
> talk!
>
>
> -- 
> Bill Eslick
> www.weslick.com/RV6Index.htm